"Hover" message for a desktop icon.

[Guest]

Is it possible to have a "hover" message appear when the mouse is placed over
an icon on the desktop? A friend needs to customize several computers to
display some instructive text when users point to an icon on the desktop.

Thanks,
Ken
(e-mail address removed)

 

[Andrew Bailey]

Hi there,

Try this... http://www.phm.lu/products/PC/Plus/

Hope that helps

Andy

 

[MP]

If the icon is a shortcut you can right click it and go to Properties.
Enter something in the comment line and that will display as a "hover"

 

[Marc D. Williams]

Is it possible to have a "hover" message appear when the mouse is placed
over
an icon on the desktop? A friend needs to customize several computers to
display some instructive text when users point to an icon on the desktop.

Thanks,
Ken
(e-mail address removed)

I think InfoTag Magic fits the bill. Been using it for a long
time now and it's almost a must-have for me.
Here's the description:

Description
-------------
InfoTag Magic is a Windows Explorer infotip shell extension
that provides pop-up text containing extra data stored in the
tag fields including the title, artist, album, duration and more,
when the mouse pointer is hovered over an MP3, WMA, OGG Vorbis
or Monkey's Audio file.
As a bonus feature it displays a couple of first lines of plain
text files (BAT, TXT, INI, LOG, DIZ, BAK, QUE), shortcut properties
(target file name, location, working directory, etc.) and version
information, such as vile and product version, description and
product name, copyright, etc. for executable (EXE, DLL, OCX)
files.

http://www.ContextMagic.com/